On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:22:20PM -0400, Jonathan Lebon wrote: > Hi, > > I have a qemu domain which uses a virtio-serial port. On the > host, the unix socket is created in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu. > As non-root, I'd like to be able to communicate through this > unix socket. > > The issue is that the socket is created as qemu:qemu with > permissions 755 (does this come from libvirt's umask?). Is > there any way to affect this permission from the domain's > XML definition file? Even if it has to be created as > qemu:qemu, having a permission of 775 would also be an > acceptable solution. Our recommendation is to not try to use the UNIX socket directly, but instead use the virDomainOpenChannel() API to read/write data on it from an application. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
